# Paper Outline: Working title

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Target venue | Conference / journal |
| Deadline | YYYY-MM-DD |
| Status | Outline / Draft / Review |
| Co-authors | Names |

## Contribution claim

We show that [one-sentence claim]. This matters because [impact].

## Structure

### 1. Introduction (~1.5 pages)

- Hook: the problem in the real world
- Gap: what prior work misses
- Contributions (bulleted, 3 max):
  1. Contribution one
  2. Contribution two
  3. Contribution three

### 2. Related work (~1 page)

- Line of work A – how we differ
- Line of work B – how we differ

### 3. Method (~3 pages)

- Formal setup: definitions, notation
- Core formulation:

$$
\min_{\theta} \; \mathcal{L}(\theta) = \sum_{i=1}^{n} \ell(f_\theta(x_i), y_i) + \lambda \|\theta\|^2
$$

- Theorem statements + proof sketches

### 4. Experiments (~3 pages)

- Datasets + baselines
- Main table: our method vs baselines
- Ablations: which component matters most
- Figures: F1 main result, F2 ablation, F3 qualitative

### 5. Discussion & limitations (~0.5 page)

### 6. Conclusion (~0.25 page)

## Writing tasks

- [ ] Related work paragraph on X – @author
- [ ] Experiments table Y – @author
- [ ] Proof of Lemma 1 – @author

## Submission checklist

- [ ] Page limit / format verified
- [ ] Anonymization requirements met
- [ ] Reproducibility artifacts prepared